Pakistan envoy suggests India faked Mumbai transcripts

Pakistan's investigation into the Mumbai attacks has found that they were not planned from Pakistani territory, the country's high commissioner to London said today in an interview that is certain to infuriate India.

Wajid Shamsul Hasan, Pakistan's high commissioner in Britain, also suggested that India had fabricated transcripts of telephone calls between the Mumbai attackers and their handlers in Pakistan.

His comments gave the first indication of the results of Pakistan's investigation into the attack, which were supposed to be announced on Tuesday, but now appear to have been indefinitely delayed.

"Pakistani territory was not used so far as the investigators have made their conclusions," Mr Hasan told India's NDTV channel in an interview.

"They categorically informed me that [the] UK was not involved. Pak [Pakistan] was not involved. Its territories were not used for planning this operation," he said.

"We are not doing any whitewashing business. We believe in going about facts. Our findings will be acceptable to the world."

His remarks are bound to anger India, which blames the attacks on Pakistani militants who it says must have had support from Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency. More